Bio: Dr. C. Mohan has been an IBM researcher for 33 years in the information management area, impacting numerous IBM and non-IBM products, the research and academic communities, and standards, especially with his invention of the ARIES family of database locking and recovery algorithms, and the Presumed Abort commit protocol. This IBM, ACM and IEEE Fellow has also served as the IBM India Chief Scientist for 3 years. In addition to receiving the ACM SIGMOD Innovation Award (1996), the VLDB 10 Year Best Paper Award (1999) and numerous IBM awards, Mohan was elected to the US and Indian National Academies of Engineering, and was named an IBM Master Inventor. This Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Madras received his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an inventor of 45 patents. He has served on the advisory board of IEEE Spectrum and on the IBM Software Group Architecture Board’s Council. Mohan is a frequent speaker in North America, Europe and India, and has given talks in 40 countries. More information can be found in his home page at http://bit.ly/CMohan